About Event
An exhibition spotlighting over 40 years of work by the BAFTA award-winning and Turner Prize-shortlisted artist duo, Langlands & Bell.
‘Langlands & Bell: Ideas of Utopia’ presents artworks which examine attempts – knowing and unknowing – to create utopias whether domestic, religious, social or commercial. The exhibition also considers Charleston as an important place of early modernist social experimentation and questions a building’s power to unite us, separate us, protect us, and inspire thought and creativity.
Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell’s ongoing partnership began in 1978 while they were still at art school. They have been working together ever since using a range of media including film and video, digital media projects, sculpture, installation, prints, and architecture.
Langlands & Bell’s work explores the social, cultural and geographical relationship we have with buildings, objects and systems of communication. Central to their practice is an enduring interrogation of the ever-changing role of architecture, interiors, technology and design.
From their first-ever collaboration on the installation ‘Kitchen’ (1978), to their more recent series ‘Internet Giants: Masters of the Universe’ (2018), the exhibition brings together works spanning the breadth of their career.
Requirements / Eligibility
n/a
Submission / Key Dates
2 April – 29 August 2022
About the Organizer
The modernist home and studio of the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Charleston was a gathering point for some of the 20th century’s most radical artists, writers and thinkers known collectively as the Bloomsbury group. It is where they came together to imagine society differently, and has always been a place where art and experimental thinking are at the centre of everyday life.
Today, we present a dynamic year-round programme of exhibitions, events and festivals. We believe in the power of art, in all its forms, to provoke new ways of thinking and living.
